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Forums will be down for a few hours

Some exciting news...

Yesterday, I found out some person/bot broke into our server and was using a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. How ridiculous? 2 Terabytes a day. That's 1,000 Gigabytes. This has apparently been going on for nearly a week and I was hit with a bill for nearly $2,000 (which is about how much I've paid for server fees in the past two years combined).

I spent all of yesterday stopping it, trying to figure it out, and talking to our host to figure out a solution.

Sometime in the next week I will be migrating PokeDream to a new server with monitoring so that this stuff won't happen again. So, just a heads up, the forums may be down for a few hours (or maybe a day).

I'm still not sure what's been running, but I did patch a couple security holes in some third-party software.

I've been telling you about the bot issues for 4 months now. It's not natural that PD had 14,000+ members in less than a year. You don't get that kind of bot activity without a hack of some sort or nefarious doings of another person or entity. I could bet you that a lot of the UI problems we have been having have something to do with your $2,000 dollar bandwidth joyride problem.

Moral of the story, listen to Dogar The Brave.

Your an absolutely wonderful man, any girl that is yours is lucky and I know that from personal experience. ~KMT

I've been telling you about the bot issues for 4 months now. It's not natural that PD had 14,000+ members in less than a year. You don't get that kind of bot activity without a hack of some sort or nefarious doings of another person or entity. I could bet you that a lot of the UI problems we have been having have something to do with your $2,000 dollar bandwidth joyride problem.